As Blogger improves its templates and design options, I gave up trying to get all my files transferred to another system. Therefore, I am back to Enviralblog.blogspot.com without ever actually leaving.
So, from now on, I will be updating the blog constantly as I start teaching a new course directly related to the subject area of this blog: Communicating Science, Environment and Health.
My new course, offered both during this summer and in January at Bridgewater College, will follow the truncated path of scientific information from its birth through research until its final destinations: the general public and policymakers. We will study how scientists generate information and how they communicate scientific information to different publics. Then, we will see how these publics (journalists, communicators in different organizations, other scientists and academics, administrators and executives, policymakers and regulators, etc.) find, capture and transform the information and communicate scientific information to their publics.
We will see which ways cause most distortion to the core idea of the scientific finding and which ones are more useful in educating and informing the public about environmental and health issues. We will also analyze the role played by each group of communicators (broadly defined) of scientific findings to make a specific piece of information more or less useful and accessible to the diverse publics of their communicative efforts.
Before, during and after the course, I will be using this space to report on the different issues pertaining to the topic.
I hope you join me on this journey of the communication of scientific discovery!
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